Naming Wisconsin...


Europeans first used the word when Father Jacques Marquette entered it in his journal in June 1673 during the voyage he made with fur trader Louis Joliet across Wisconsin and down the Mississippi.

Wisconsin got it's name from the English spelling of a French version of a Miami Indian name for the Wisconsin River that runs 430 miles through the center of our state. Theories have been widely publicized; including claims that name originated from one of a variety of Ojibwa words meaning, "red stone place," "gathering of the waters," or "great rock.

So there it is, Wisconsin is a RED STATE with great STONES!

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